1 Kings 14:3-13

3 "¹Take ten loaves with you, some cakes and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what will happen to the boy."

4 Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose and went to ²Shiloh, and came to the house of ³Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see, ⁴for his eyes were dim because of his age.

5 Now the LORD had said to Ahijah, "Behold, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to inquire of you concerning her son, for he is sick. You shall say thus and thus to her, for it will be when she arrives that ⁵she will pretend to be another woman."

6 When Ahijah heard the sound of her feet coming in the doorway, he said, "Come in, wife of Jeroboam, why do you pretend to be another woman? For I am sent to you with a harsh message.

7 "Go, say to Jeroboam, 'Thus says the LORD God of Israel, "⁶Because * I exalted you from among the people and made you leader over My people Israel,

8 and ⁷tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you-⁸yet you have not been like My servant David, who kept My commandments and who followed * Me with all his heart, ⁹to do only that which was right in My sight;

9 you also have done more evil than all who were before you, and ¹⁰have gone and made for yourself other gods and ¹¹molten images to provoke Me to anger, and have ¹²cast Me behind your back -

10 therefore behold, I am bringing calamity on the house of Jeroboam, and ¹³will cut off from Jeroboam every male * person, ¹⁴both bond and free in Israel, and I ¹⁵will make a clean sweep of the house of Jeroboam, as one sweeps away dung until it is all gone.

11 "¹⁶Anyone belonging to Jeroboam who dies in the city the dogs will eat. And he who dies in the field the birds of the heavens will eat; for the LORD has spoken it."'

12 "Now you, arise, go to your house. ¹⁷When your feet enter the city the child will die.

13 "All Israel shall mourn for him and bury him, for he alone of Jeroboam's family will come to the grave, because in him ¹⁸something good was found toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.

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1 Kings 14:3-13 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 KINGS 14

This chapter relates the sickness of Jeroboam's son, the application of his wife, at his instance, to the prophet Ahijah, in the child's favour, 1Ki 14:1-6, the prophecy of the prophet concerning the ruin of Jeroboam's house, and the death of the child, which came to pass, 1Ki 14:7-18, an account of the years of Jeroboam's reign, and also of Rehoboam's, 1Ki 14:19-21, and of the evil things done and suffered by the latter in his kingdom, and the calamities that came upon him for it, 1Ki 14:22-28 and the conclusion of his reign, 1Ki 14:29-31.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 18

1. 1 Samuel 9:7, 8; 1 Kings 13:7; 2 Kings 4:42
2. 1 Kings 14:2
3. 1 Kings 11:29
4. 1 Samuel 3:2; 1 Samuel 4:15
5. 2 Samuel 14:2
6. 2 Samuel 12:7; 1 Kings 11:28-31; 1 Kings 16:2
7. 1 Kings 11:31
8. 1 Kings 11:33, 38
9. 1 Kings 15:5
10. 1 Kings 12:28; 2 Chronicles 11:15
11. Exodus 34:17
12. Nehemiah 9:26; Psalms 50:17; Ezekiel 23:35
13. 1 Kings 21:21; 2 Kings 9:8
14. Deuteronomy 32:36; 2 Kings 14:26
15. 1 Kings 15:29
16. 1 Kings 16:4; 1 Kings 21:24
17. 1 Kings 14:17
18. 2 Chronicles 19:3

Footnotes 4

[a]. Lit "set"
[b]. Lit "seek a word from"
[c]. Lit "him who urinates against the wall"
[d]. Lit "the one"

1 Kings 14:3-13

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1 Kings 14:3-13 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 KINGS 14

Cross References 18

Footnotes 4